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to kill them, we were forced to run tliem through with our 

 launces. 



They swim from one sheet of ice to the other, they also 

 dive under water ; when they were at one side of our long- 

 boat they did dive, and came up again on the other. They 

 also run upon the land. I did not hear them roar so as ours 

 do, but they only bark. 



We could not discern the young ones from the old ones, 

 but only by the two furthermost long teeth, which in the 

 young were hollow within, but those of the old ones were 

 close and solid. If you burn their teeth and powder them, 

 and give them inwardly, it disperseth coagulated blood. The 

 young ones keep constantly close to the old ones ; we observed 

 that two young ones and an old one would not leave one ano- 

 ther, for if one ran away, it turned back again immediately as 

 soon as it did hear the others, as if it would come to help them. 

 The old one run to the young one, and the young one to the 

 old one, and rather than they would leave one another, they 

 would suffer themselves to be all killed. 



They feed upon the carcasses of whales, and near them we 

 killed the most : they also eat men alive when they have an 

 opportunity to master them. They remove or roll away the 

 stones of the burial places, open the coffins, and eat the dead 

 men, which many have seen ; and we can also conclude it 

 from hence, because we find the dead mens bones lye by the 

 coffins that are opened. They also eat birds and eggs. AYe 

 kill them with guns, or any other Avay we can. We caught 

 three of them, one -whereof I drew after the life, on the loth 

 of July. 



What bccomcth of these hears and foxes in the winter- 

 time I do not know ; in the summer they have in some 

 places, for a few months, provision enough, but in the 

 winter, when the rocks and hills are covered with snow, 

 there is but very little to be had for them ; yet being it is 

 supposed that the deer stay also there all winter long, I be- 

 lieve that these beasts do the same. 



